Business is still happening. Homes are still being sold. Buyers are still getting mortgages. And Realtors are still influencing which loan officers get the opportunity to serve those buyers. So if you’re heading into Q4 wondering where the business is going to come from, the better question may be: Are enough of the right people in your market aware of you? In this solo episode, Geoff Zimpfer comes to you from the Momentum Builder event in Dallas with a challenge for loan officers preparing fo

Want more Realtor referrals without spending your entire week chasing agents, scheduling coffee meetings, and hoping they send you business? In this episode of Mortgage Marketing Radio, Geoff Zimpfer sits down with mortgage broker Logan Lindstrum to break down the Realtor referral system helping him scale his mortgage business. After stepping away from mortgage for roughly two years, Logan returned, became a broker, and has built his production to 136 units and more than $40 million in year-to

What if the toughest mortgage market in years is actually giving you an opportunity to take market share? In this episode, I sit down with Don Goettling, founder of Momentum Builder and a mortgage industry veteran with nearly four decades of experience, to talk about why loan officers who are waiting for the market to get easier may be making a costly mistake. Don and I discuss what separates mortgage professionals who are still growing from those who have pulled back—and why your mindset, env

Want more Realtor referrals without spending your week cold calling agents? In this episode, longtime client Glenda White joins the Agent Referral Xcelerator cohort to break down how she uses educational agent classes to create appointments, build trust with real estate agents, and turn those relationships into mortgage referral opportunities. Glenda shares the process she uses after teaching a Google Business Profile class for real estate agents, including how she gets agents to book 15-minut

You didn't wake up one day and choose a life you don't recognize. You drifted into it, one compromise at a time. Shawn Mingus spent 20 years teaching this to more than 4,000 people, and his position is blunt: balance is the right word. Work-life is the broken part. Life doesn't have two dimensions. It has eight. In this conversation, Shawn walks through the exercise from his book Reimagining Balance: score all eight by emotion instead of a vague 1-to-10, plot them as a polygon, and look at the

Most loan officers are stuck on the bottom two floors of a pyramid they don't know they're standing on. Floor one is solicitor. Cold calls, coffee invites, "I'd love to learn about your business." Agents have heard it a thousand times and they know what it is. Floor two is vendor. You broke through, you're getting deals, and you're still leading with product and price. DSCR. Self-employed programs. Close on time. Everybody says that, which means it's worth nothing. Between vendor and partner